

Yeah lack of third spaces and class mixing is big. Everyone is segregated into their own existing (shrinking) in groups, that then get concentrated by the webiverse.
The 70s oil crisis was an inflection point for Europe and a lot of cities/countries started moving back away from cars as the sole transportation option but the US didn’t have the same reaction.
* not counting inflation.
I’m not saying it doesn’t suck but SNES games were over $100 adjusted. It’s kind of crazy game prices have been inflation proof for ~2 decades.